Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas blame LeBron & Lakers slump on Darvin Ham | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas blame LeBron & Lakers slump on Darvin Ham | Nightcap

Harvin ham calls out cam reddish and Jared Vanderbilt can’t be confused with can’t can’t be confused with the ball ham said I was just I’m I’m I’m just not I’m not I just think not allowing it to be stag to stagnate us if they’re trying

To play off cam got to step up shooting with confidence or eat up space on the drive collapse the defense once he touches the paint Drive find the open man same thing for V ball hits him and he just can’t hold it be confused he called them out not himself yeah you

Put them two sorry [ __ ] in the game nobody told you to serve a dude who averages 1.5 and put him as a starter right that’s that’s your like when you gonna take responsibility for the lineups you putting out like you have the the Lakers starting five the way it

Was they were only averaging 82 points as a starting five which is low well consider LeBron and AD averaging 50 50 yeah so the rest of your team that the rest of your starters is only putting up that is a low starting five 82 points is low

Now you sub in Van and take out Russ which pushes you down to 68 points a game just to show you how bad that is the worst team in the NBA the Detroit Pistons they’re averaging 69 for though they’re they’re averaging 73 points as a starting five

So the Detroit Piston starting five is better than the Lakers starting five right now in point production what what defense are you looking for yeah who who ain’t nobody you need to be in order for for for them to justify the defensive like or they’re supposed to be

Defensive guys they need to be Dennis Johnson they need to be Alvin Robertson need to be they need to be Dennis Rodman of somebody somebody on the ball like that but you can’t you cannot give me one point let’s just say V gives us two three and and cam reddish gives us eight

Come on bro that’s not enough 11 points and we got got and you’re playing 25 to 30 minutes three and eight points is not enough it’s just not it you you got three guy like ad is a defensive player LeBron is defensive player but he’s 39 I

Got enough defense to put all offense right I have I have guys who can block shots to put enough offense out there right this is crazy because their losses they scored 94 points one onone 94 109 108 110 111 115 you’re not you can’t score right you’re not moving fast

Enough with the unit you have you know what this reminds me what he did right here reminds me of the 2000 it was the two is it the 2020 the 2000 the 20 the 2020 Clippers team where they use this is the deepest team they got the deepest bench you got the deepest bench because youro starting five was sorry as [ __ ] right starting five you had you break

Yeah cuz you bring you bringing sweet Lou and Tre and they clo they play they playing more minutes as as reserves then you starter other than you got 40 you got 40 points coming off the bench with two players of course your bench is deep

So your bench was number one in the NBA and scoring your starting five was 25th you’re averaging 69 points because you got zubac Pat Bev and mo who’s averaging seven eight and five you’re not deep you got four players five you got four players that’s it you’re just trying to

Trick and two of them come off the bench the yeah you trying to take two starters put them off the bench oh yeah we got this this deep team because you know in the NBA it’s hard to blow a team out in the first five six minutes right so you know

At the six minute Mark you can sub in your two guys and then get the rolling and let these guys get a little bit of minutes right oh you you did good boys now go sit down let the real players get in I hate I hate I hate lineups like

That right you’re trying you’re just trying to trick like your team is good but knowing damn well if a team got old nine and in the first one minute of the game get y asses out getes in right and that that happened a couple times but

You have to have a balanced team and the fact that you have ruy Austin and russle coming off the bench like oh yeah we got you know 40 something points coming off the bench yeah you got 40 something coming off the bench but you’re starting five is only scoring 60 points right you

Got LeBron James and and AD scoring 50 and you got the other three guys Dam putting in 10 like stop stop these dumbass lineups because and and here’s the thing and you telling me these guys but they still can’t stop dribble penetration guys are still getting past

Bando they’re still getting past Cam and they’re kicking the ball to the corner for wide open threes so if if you’re supposed to be a defensive guy if you’re not gonna get here’s the if if I’m not an offensive guy and this is where I approach it uh uh Gil when I play

Football I’ve got to be more of an asset in the passing game than I am a liability in the Run game so in other words if you are a li you got to be a tremendous asset in the defensive end if you’re liability on the offensive end if you’re

A basketball player and right now you’re a liability on both so it’s basically you becoming unplayable because I don’t know how you play guy gonna give me two points and then he’s letting guys get past him and I gotta slide ad and the guy’s passing the ball and the guy’s

Laying it up or some a help gotta come and he’s kicking it to the corner bro what are you doing I never I never understood that and and and it’s weird because I would love to ask a defensive coach why they put these lineups in I’m a offensive player I Brad offense

Right the worst player that I wanted to see was someone like me that I had to guard he gonna make you work he got I did not want to face me Patrick Beverly’s woo oh it’s it’s trouble for you homeboy because you’re only you’re here to play

Defense not offense so I’m resting half the time I’m giving you my all that means it’s like boxing right I get to punch you but you got your hands tied I get the punch on you while your hands TI the fact that you you gonna

Take three four shots a game why am I paying attention you that is the easiest night for me because there’s no way you’re going to stop me from taking 2 30 shots but I don’t have to give you no effort on the the defense the defense I

Get to say I get to say and the worst player I wanted to play was someone scoring like me because he’s embarrassing me now right so if I’m playing against the Lakers and I’m Trey young hell yeah I want to play against cam all day you ain’t embarrassing me you a you

Ain’t doing nothing you just get to play defense all day and I don’t I don’t understand why they put these lineups out there because you’re you’re helping the offensive team because you’re you’re handicapping yourself you’re playing three on five on offense or two on Five on offense and you’re not good enough the

Rules aren’t made my offense of book is a hundred times better than any rules you can put in and that’s the difference in today’s game back then it was 6040 defense to offense MH right you know you dribbled a certain way you only had a certain amount of moves now the moves

Today I can I can hold it a little bit I can do I my care so now it’s basically 90 to 10 W there’s no rule they can put in that hand checking all that D when people talk ain’t no hand checking that can stop these moves today impeding

Progress that is that is that is trash all of it it was trash when it was in you got so I mean guys can shoot the ball better and guys can handle the ball better you got two or three guys on every team that can make you look stupid

Handling the ball everybody got that everybody got that pull everybody got the head okay I’m going the a one I mean how many guys we see that everybody doing that I mean guys like who the who the f for you where you get that move from so the likelihood of you bringing

Somebody oh he’s a defense the stopper oh he go man them guys are too good they too skilled too SK that it’s it’s you you if I want to hunt a lion I need a lion the gazelle ain’t going he Ain exactly he’s lunching me it’s weird

Right um DLo said he wanted to be Derek white we all laughed please be Derek white goddamn it I beg you to be Derek white now because Derek white didn’t want to just be a liability I’m just a defensive player you go that’s the difference between

Boston now right you got you know you got the Unicorn over there which had added extra offense right you would have you would have thought that Derek white would be more of a defensive player because he don’t need to score he upped his scoring up yes and that’s what the lake that’s what

The Lakers need DLo I need you to up your production not if you put right these guys need to up and up not because if you put pressure on the oppos team I mean maybe it take some of that zap out of them and they not able to give you that

Work no listen when you when you trying to score my my my one thing that I always went into games when when I had to play against um AI when I had to play against Steve Francis when I had to play against um malberry I’m a I’m coming at you

First I’m going to come at you so hard that it makes you not want to play offense thinking that if you don’t shoot I don’t shoot NBA players really think that’s the thing or if I don’t shoot against him he won’t shoot against me okay that’s your

Fault and and what I did when we started off the games and I was playing against the the the highlevel guards the Steve nashes I’m trying to give them buckets early to set the tone I can’t let Steve Nash come and pick me to death if you

Look at my games with Steve Nash I made him a score like when you when you look at our matchups against Steve Nash he wasn’t having 15 and 17 assists 30 40 like you’re going to have to match me point for point if you want to keep up you’re

Not going to be able to try to sit there and get your guys I’m scoring too fast makes you want to score too yeah yeah it’s kind of like you know I gotta take some of that zap like my grandma used to say okay y’all stay out

All night you going to church in the morning n you not you not going to lag back there if they hey oh uhuh I’m Gonna Give You bucket you get this you got to make them work yeah and uh that’s not happening so it’s going to be very

Interesting to see what his starting line out look like tomorrow the Laker players are reportedly frustrated with daring Ham’s decision about starting lineup and their role frustration with players roles and fluctuating minutes uncertainty regarding their roles and inconsistency in playing time the communication gap between player between

Coaching staff and players appears to be widening with players expressing confusion over the mixed messages they received Reports say criticism has been directed at Ham’s lineup choices and rotation particularly perceived inconsistency and handling struggling struggling players some players like Austin Reeds D’Angelo Russell ryy haimura reportedly face short leashes than when encountered

Difficulties while other players toian Prince cam reddish enjoy longer leashes despite struggles on the court we saw that they have no problem putting Austin Rees on the bench remember he’s struggling to start the season well we talked to you we it would be to the bench okay what about them other guys

Yeah H was a defensive player I think right I don’t remember was he was on the bench when I was playing he get he didn’t get in the game but most likely he was a defensive player one of those guys that hustled and that’s his

Mindset right you got a little bit of in you and you looking for it on the court like these guys play the right way well it’s not the right way if they’re not winning right of course all a Reeves Ru and D’Angelo will be mad they’re your

Offense so they miss two or three shots you put them on a bench these guys don’t even take three shots and they’re playing right so now you got now what ends up happening is you start you start looking at the guys as enemies instead of teammates yeah okay makes sense right

You start putting division inside the locker room because they’re getting minutes that they haven’t earned right he he took three shots he he did this and he plays 30 minutes now what does that do to someone like D’Angelo right oh if I don’t do nothing

If I don’t shoot if I don’t make no mistakes I play longer right because that’s what he’s doing with this guy right the fact that at this point in the season you’re still having fluctuation problems let you know you don’t know what’s going on right now you’re still

Trying to find stuff and instead of building on that that that Championship midseason End season midseason whatever the season beginning of the season right you supposed to be build and confident that was supposed to boom boom boom boom and take off right you have ruie ruie and D’Angelo should be

Starting or Reeves and Cam and Cam and Prince both should be started nor Vando no those two of those should not be starting I didn’t I didn’t even I didn’t even look at him as a starter that that that that that looks like a friend hook up like you like you lost a

Bet he looked like you lost the bet like all right I you know like I put him I’ll put him in right he’s not a he he shouldn’t even be playing minutes right now they weren’t worn they weren’t earned right you can’t just say all right we’re gonna go from averaging one

And put me and I’m sitting there I’m also like wait a minute man I’m averaging 15 points a game solid and you ain’t even think about me yeah you ain’t thinking about me as a starter what’s wrong with you that happens like you’re getting minutes think about it you’re

Getting minutes that you didn’t deserve and you think I’m cool with it because I’m watching there’s not one time that Jarry vanderbel to shot a shot outside and it doesn’t Shoot Many it that I actually thought it was going in be I’m watching on television or I’m actually

Sitting at the game not one time do does he shoot a shot and I was like oh man that’s good hell even when he lay the ball even when when he like driving the ball he goon flip it up left hand I like that ain’t going in so what is this man

Doing on defense looking at LeBron looking at Anthony Davis I got the night off no your job your job isn’t the funnel your job is to D up because you give us nothing offensively like I said you got whatever it is you got to be a bigger asset than

A liability so he has to be a bigger asset on the defensive end because we know he’s a liability on the offensive end but if he gives us nothing on either now all of a sudden he’s no good If you wasn’t playing him at the beginning of the Season there was a reason don’t play his ass now because you you feel you need to change [ __ ] up no you need to get everybody thinking the right way you need to get everybody in tune with what their game is you

Think D’Angelo is coming off the bench to to this guy think he’s happy like cam like you putting cam on the bench what’s that going to do he going he give you five or he going to give you five coming off the bench cool like I’m not losing nothing there right

But that is something that that that that that bleeds a locker room where you’re looking at somebody in front of you that ain’t him right so you ain’t cheering for him right you put a guy in that can’t shoot the ball he’s and I’m sitting here we sit here like all right

You know we gonna play Team ball like right you you start you start ruie or Austin you start Russell or Austin trust me their production is GNA get better because you you the fact that you don’t there shouldn’t be you shouldn’t be at this place right now you you shouldn’t be right here

Right now this is this is horrible unless unless they putting Vandy in because they need to trade him show him he’s healthy that that’s the thing that’s the thing right 15 show him he healthy all right now yeah he heard look at him look him out there

Look at him go down y’all he like he like that car we got you know we we want to sell it so I’m will drive it let everybody see it’s operational then I’m going go put it right back up hey stick the for sale sign in Jamar that and that’s what this play

Looks like it looks like they wna they want to show that because there’s no way as a coach you gonna take a guy who’s averaging 1.5 and insert him in the starting lineup and he don’t even get no minutes only play is I want to show him

Off so I can package him because you know V was hurt at the start of the season I think he had a foot injury or he had some kind of injury to start the season yeah but for whatever reason man hey they got to get more production they

Need more they need more than five points three points two points from him toian Prince is like H the Miss but okay he does I mean look more times than not I feel comfortable with him shooting the three ball but like I said we don’t need all three of Them

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to reports that Los Angeles Lakers players are frustrated with head coach Darvin Ham’s rotations. They explain how LeBron James and Anthony Davis are being let down by Ham’s poor coaching and discuss which players could be moved at the NBA trade deadline.

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